Episode 18
“Heh! Heo!”
The breath that rose to the tip of his chin created a pure white breath.
It wasn’t quite winter yet, but it happened because the air at dawn was quite cold.
“I went over there!”
“Chase! Don’t miss it!”
“It must be captured alive!”
The voices of the pursuers came close.
There was no time to rest.
As the woman struggled to get up, her immaculate skin reflected the moonlight.
He was quite tall with a well-balanced, solid body, and his dark red, medium-length hair blew in the autumn wind.
In the moonlight, her eyes held a strange blue color.
It was probably nicknamed the Blue Bird because of its eyes.
It was.
This woman was Wendy, the second daughter of the Landswalger family, codenamed Bluebird.
She went to assassinate the Marquis of Pennant but failed and was being pursued by the Metropolitan Police.
“Damn it. Hold on a little longer…”
Wendy muttered softly as she looked down at the pierced leather armor.
I hurriedly inserted a cotton swab dipped in a healing potion to provide first aid, but it was dangerous at this rate.
I just hoped that the wound wouldn’t burst until I hid myself in the hideout.
“It’s obviously gone from here.”
“You just have to look back the way you came. You should start by requesting support.”
“I’ve already sent a signal. Everyone will be coming this way soon.”
Sure enough, the pursuers who had passed by some time ago were returning.
Fortunately, she was already out of their search range.
Wendy rolled over and fell into the sewer.
At the same time, he shook his left hand to the side and deliberately made a bloodstain.
It made a fake trail to confuse tracking.
dump!
As we descended into the long sewer, the smell of rot stung our nostrils.
This was the main conduit that drained Troven’s filth out of the city.
In the summer it’s no problem, but in the winter it always gets clogged up.
“Shoot! Jjijik!”
As expected, the lower part was a mess to the extent that the rats swarmed around.
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Just as she was about to get up, a human head approached Wendy’s face.
Pushy!
He reflexively stabbed the dagger, but the feeling in his hand was strange.
Because it was already a half-rotten corpse.
Probably the death row inmate who was hanged a while ago.
Sinners who died for various reasons are also abandoned here.
“Tsk.”
She clicked her tongue briefly, drew out her dagger, and moved into the sewer.
But just then, the voices of the pursuers came from above.
It was a brief difference.
“Where are you going? What do you see?”
“You didn’t go to the sewer, did you?”
“I can’t believe it… If I went in there on a day like today, I’d get sick and die.”
Wendy held her breath as she listened to them.
She felt the eerie touch of the rats passing between her legs, but she didn’t move.
They just waited for the pursuers to get caught in the sabotage operation.
“Here’s a bloodstain. It must have gone this way!”
“What are you doing? I have to chase after you!”
ride and ride… … .
Fortunately, they found bloodstains and moved through the sewer to the next compartment.
Only then did Wendy breathe a sigh of relief and move.
Kwajik!
Nervously, she stepped on the rats that were roaming under her feet and drove them away.
After a while, I moved my steps towards the inside of the sewer.
The situation was better with groundwater.
The sewage gas did not make it difficult to breathe.
Wendy, who had been staggering along, suddenly climbed into the wall.
It puts the body into a hollow space.
“phew!”
When I set foot on dry ground, I felt a little relieved.
This was a temporary resting place for workers during the construction of an underground aqueduct.
Wendy has made this her own hiding place, hiding survival items.
for a day like today.
Taking off her leather armor, she began to treat her wounds.
Then he remembered someone’s face.
“I thought he would show up.”
The moment she was about to cut off Marquis Pennant’s lifeline, Wendy had to be attacked by a mysterious attack.
The presence that appeared on the scene was trying to stop the assassination.
A tolerable guy would have just ignored it and enforced it.
However, the opponent was Jerome Klevitz, the leader of the Luminous Knights.
He is a person called the Wings of Luminosity, and he is an extremely powerful person who is in Tier 2.
It was a miracle that she escaped with her skill, which was only tier 4.
If the opponent hadn’t tried to slash the dagger that was flying at the target, Wendy would have died on the spot.
“Why is he?”
According to the information the agents asked, there was no one stronger than himself around Marquis Pennant.
But why was Jerome Klevitz there?
“Simple information error? If not… a trap?”
Whatever happened, the priority was to overcome the current situation.
She slowly tried operating her aura.
When I tried to rotate the Conantreger while breathing, my stomach instantly groaned.
Although she didn’t vomit even once in the rotting trash heap, Wendy vomited something out of the hiding place.
“Wow! Damn it.”
The internal injuries were so severe that I couldn’t do anything right now.
Reluctantly, she only appeased the bet with a simple aura breathing.
If he recovers to a certain extent, then Lee Hyeong-eun planned to escape the city by sleeping.
how much time had passed?
It feels like a few days have passed, but there is no sign of recovery.
It seemed that the internal injuries were so severe that it would not be possible to take a day or two.
“I’m running out of food…”
The amount of dry food hidden was really small.
It was put there to use when in a hurry, so it was only natural that it would fall off soon.
But Troven’s surveillance was still at its peak.
If Lee Hyeong-eun can’t use the sleep technique, he’ll get caught as soon as he leaves this place.
However, I felt that the trend outside was completely different from before.
It was to the extent that the shouts of the Metropolitan Police Department could be heard even from the hiding place.
“What?”
Wendy, who struggled to get up, got out of the aqueduct and eavesdropped on their voices.
However, the contents were quite shocking.
“Everyone move to Marquis Pennant’s mansion! The situation broke out there!”
“No, again?”
“Stop talking and run!”
Soon, with the sound of jumping steps, silence came to the area.
It was so quiet that it felt even more strange.
Perhaps it was a trap, so she didn’t move for a while.
But no matter how long I waited, the upper part was still.
Wendy tilted her head as she finally got out of the sewer.
“What?”
* * *
Wendy was so completely hidden that even the Assassins couldn’t find her.
Even after putting all the power of the central branch, I couldn’t find out where it was.
That meant that she was in serious trouble.
Maybe it’s because I can’t come out at all, so I’m holding my breath like this.
The plan I pitched to Faceless was to resume the mission.
He was trying to create an opening for Wendy to escape by diverting his attention elsewhere.
‘Oh, of course I didn’t really go out to kill.’
Because the wing of brilliance, Jerome Klevitz, was right next to Marquis Pennant.
The boundaries have also been strengthened more than before.
‘I’m just pretending. Pretend to assassinate.’
Of course, resuming the mission wasn’t easy either.
In order to properly attract attention, it was not easy to end with a casual threat.
Troops will come this way only with the real risk of death.
shhh! Shih! Tadadang!
When I opened the Hoiryeonbido at an appropriate distance, Jerome with his eyes turned upside down pursued me like an angry bull.
Along with the knights who guarded the Marquis of Pennant.
As if considering an additional ambush, Jerome Klevitz immediately went back.
But the chase was still brutal.
It was a natural result to touch the security forces and the Luminous Knights, who were on high alert.
“No, you don’t have to come so many times, do you? Isn’t this too much! Mr…”
As he was about to turn the corner while spitting out curse words, knights poured out in front of him.
I jumped over the elongated railing and continued southward.
A lot has changed in 19 years, but Troven has been my favorite city.
This place is lined with the best places to enjoy art.
Thanks to my hard work day and night, I knew pretty much every corner of the city.
‘Five! It’s still here.’
Fortunately, the business I used often opened on time today.
The large one-story building had an old-fashioned charm.
The thick pillars with a heavy feeling and the private soldiers standing in front of them created an atmosphere that was somehow inaccessible.
If you had to pick the most popular place in Troven’s wealthiest northern district, this would be it.
It’s a place where people with higher ranks frequent than any other nearby karma.
I quickly changed my outfit and put on a golden wolf mask.
After catching my breath, I entered the mysterious building.
As I waved my hand leisurely and put my arm on the counter, the masked madam put a smile on her lips.
“How did you come?”
I slightly turned my gaze to the calendar and tapped the counter with my index finger.
“On the 81st, the jackal comes with winter flowers.”
“ah…….”
She opened her eyes in an instant.
I couldn’t help but think of an expression that I couldn’t believe at all.
Because what I just spit out was the unique code for Riverrun Sogaju.